Year: 2024
Type: conference-paper
Abstract: Showcasing the ATLAS detector and its enormous facilities to local audiences often proves challenging as it's difficult to convey the sheer size of the apparatus. In a project together with the National Videogame Museum (NVM) in Sheffield, we have developed a virtual tour through the ATLAS experiment and the CERN site. It can be used in a web browser but is also available for use with Google Cardboard$^{\texttt{TM}}$, a cheap but effective VR headset based on mobile phones. The virtual tour has been successfully used in a number of outreach events, and is also integrated into a workshop devised with the NVM that incorporates the physics of video games, particle physics and asks participants to design a CERN-related videogame. This contribution presents the developed tour and gives an overview of its current use cases and received feedback.
DOI: 10.22323/1.476.1151
Authors: Kristin Lohwasser, Leah Dungay
Institution: University of Sheffield
Language: English
Subfield: Museology
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: hybrid
OpenAlex ID: W4405556400